On Oct 22, 2006, at 4:25 AM, Ken Moore wrote:
I have no expertise in lyrics or in artistic judgment of type faces, but I have long agreed with Comrie's view, as expressed in his edition of the Chambers 7-figure Mathematical Tables, that figures with ascenders and descenders are more legible than those of even height. The only common font that I have found with such figures is Georgia, which I find generally more legible than Times New Roman in a given size.
Fonts equipped with glyphs generally have an alternate set of numeral characters with ascenders and descenders. All of my Adobe fonts have them. I'm not sure if this is an Adobe-only feature or if it's part of a general format that anyone can use. (The only non-free fonts I have are Adobe, so I have no way of checking if other professional fonts from other providers use the same system.)
I know that InDesign has a setting among its (numerous) type attributes -- ie, something you can choose for any text, along with size, typeface, etc -- that says to use these instead of the regular numerals. Presumably non-Adobe applications could access the same feature, but I don't know if any do.
My type-geek friend is a big fan of these and always uses them. Me, I like them in some contexts but not in others. My day job is in accounting, so maybe that predisposes me to wanting to see numerals filling out nice square little grids.
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